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• 🟢 InternetArchiveBot is currently running on 150+ Wikimedia wikis.
• 🟡 The bot is being tested on Dutch Wikipedia (nl), Norwegian Bokmal Wikipedia (no), and Rusyn Wikipedia (rue).
• 🔴 Bot is approved but disabled indefinitely pending software improvements on Afrikaans Wikipedia (af), Bulgarian Wikipedia (bg), French Wikipedia (fr), MediaWiki.org, and Portuguese Wikipedia (pt)
• 🔴 Bot is blocked pending software improvements on Polish Wikipedia (pl)

Last updated: 17:53, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks for the wonderful work you have done

Wow 🙏😍😍 Lethulake (talk) 05:19, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

@Lethulake: you are so very welcome. :-) —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 18:41, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Archive date in Farsi Wikipedia

Recent changes made the references red, the error is "Check date values in: |archive-date". Salome mi (talk) 11:23, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Salome mi, please link to a page where this is happening. Harej (talk) 21:30, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Sure, I already fixed it though: https://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%B4_%28%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%29&diff=36633143&oldid=36271374&diffmode=source Salome mi (talk) 21:47, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Salome mi, can you confirm that, in citation templates on Farsi Wikipedia, the dates should use English formatting (e.g. "12 October 2022") instead of Farsi (e.g. "۱۲ اكتبر ۲۰۲۲")? Harej (talk) 21:17, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Harej (talk) 01:42, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Add 1 book for Verifiability

I wonder where are edits like this documented and configured. I don't think we originally approved this feature in our wiki, and also IABot interface doesn't seem to provide a way to switch it off without disabling the bot altogether. Book references necessarily don't need an URL, especially if this URL is to a limited preview (subscription item) such as in this example. @GreenC --Pikne 12:15, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Pikne, it is an option we have enabled for some wikis to add links to previews of books/print resources, in addition to fixing dead links. I can see this task wasn't approved on Estonian Wikipedia so it has been shut off there. Harej (talk) 21:09, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

This task appears to be still active: et:Special:Diff/6353198. Pikne 20:27, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Pikne, that thread has been shut off as well (the second half of what I described above). Harej (talk) 01:43, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Které stránky Wayback Machine archivuje?

Dobrý den, omlouvám se, že píši česky. Rád bych se zeptal, zda byste dokázali zodpovědět dotaz z české Wikipedie na stránce wikipedia:cs:Wikipedie:Pod lípou (technika)/Archiv 2022-1#Archivace URL opět (označuji @Draceane). Nevím, zda v tomto se Vy vyznáte, nebo nevyznáte, ale aspoň to zkouším a ptám se. Zajímalo by nás, zda víte, dle jakých kritérií Wayback Machine ukládá externí odkazy z Wikipedie a sesterských projektů. Ukládá jen odkazy z článků, nebo i z diskusních stránek, nebo i z jiných jmenných prostorů? Bere to odkazy například i ze šablon?

A věděli byste, proč někdy externí odkazy z článků uloží a jindy ne? Například wikipedia:cs:Kateř Tureček – některé externí odkazy nebyly uloženy v kolekci Wikipedia Eventstream.

Nebo stránka https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50770798 není v kolekci Wikipedia Eventstream, ale přitom se nachází v článku wikipedia:cs:Diagram rozdělení voleb. Mohu dohledat i další příklady.

Děkuji za odpověď, pakliže víte. Marek Genius (talk) 18:12, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Marek Genius, I am not sure if this answers your question, please let me know if it doesn't, but the Wayback Machine is crawling every external link posted to every Wikimedia wiki. It tries to save external links where it can, but if a site goes down before the bot gets to it, or something prevents any of the crawlers from getting to it, then it won't archive the link. It may also be possible for something to not end up in EventStream for whatever reason. Harej (talk) 22:03, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

@Harej: Does it apply for User namespace, too? — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 16:13, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Draceane, not automatically, but you can request specific pages through the management interface. Harej (talk) 20:00, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Harej (talk) 18:56, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Parameter question

Is it standard practice, when archiving a ref, to add the generic "Archived copy" as the title? (eg: here). Along with being inaccurate, it also creates a "script warning" (in preview mode) and a notice (in the ref list) such as: "Script warning: One or more {{cite web}} templates have maintenance messages". Are there any other options for this? Thanks Thewolfchild (talk) 15:48, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Thewolfchild, this isn't an error, it's just a maintenance message to keep track of references that are titled "Archived copy". It does not mean there is anything wrong with the reference. Harej (talk) 21:32, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

@Harej: I didn't say it was/or created an "error", nor did I say there was "anything wrong with the reference". I asked if it was standard practice for the bot to add "Archived copy" to the title parameter. I wanted to know if there are other options for this action. Also, to what purpose does it keep track of these refs? Thanks again Thewolfchild (talk) 20:22, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Thewolfchild, it is. This setting is set in the "cite defaults" page, a configuration page only accessible to the tool operators. I believe User talk:Trappist the monk requested the tracking. Harej (talk) 20:45, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, I'll drop Ttm a note and see what more info I can find. Thanks again Thewolfchild (talk) 04:03, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Harej (talk) 21:21, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

IABot causing massive havoc to multiple articles due to double archiving error

IABot (the bot itself and also through the interface) is doing double archiving as seen here, here, here. here, here, here, and here despite multiple citations in the article already archived previously with filled {{archive-date=|archive-url=|url-status}} as seen in the diffs. Not just the linked articles that were affected, more than 50+ articles were also affected based on my quick scan of en:Special:Contributions/InternetArchiveBot. And also, as seen in the diffs, it seem like the IABot is adding {{Webarchive ...}} template instead of appending to the existing {{Cite web ...}} or its other variations, which is abnormal. Paper9oll (talk) 15:45, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Paper9oll, this was caused by a brief operational problem which has since been addressed. Can you confirm? Harej (talk) 19:54, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

@Harej Yes, this has been resolved. Paper9oll (talk) 14:57, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

 This section is resolved and can be archived. If you disagree, replace this template with your comment. Harej (talk) 21:21, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Empty ref name

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T332222

Bot causing havoc (1, 2) as one as making a references mess when deleting content of all same-named references not even analyzing is that content the same or not when "optimizing" empty named (<ref name="">) references. Any ideas how to avoid such bot activity? Be112 (talk) 20:10, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your report Be112. We are tracking the issue on Phabricator. Harej (talk) 20:24, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

@Harej: You're welcome. Probably there's an task name given does not fully convey the meaning of a problem as it's much wider. Probably it would be better to name it: When two (or more) different references, all named "" (empty string), exist in an article, the bot removes all of them except first one leaving an error at all the next ones as there's 3 such reflinks exists at given example and only 2 of them were deleted (first occurence - "''[[Аляксандр Уладзіміравіч Піскуноў..." was left intact).Be112 (talk) 00:07, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

Dpreview

dpreview.com is going down. We've got about 1700 links to the site. Would it be possible to make sure they are all archived?Geni (talk) 01:39, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Geni, I can confirm that work is being done to preserve this site. Harej (talk) 01:41, 22 March 2023 (UTC)